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"Federal Law Increasingly Encourages 'Pay-to-Play' Among State AGs and Personal Injury Lawyers"

From [Their] Source: "American Tort Reform Association

A new Legal Backgrounder published today by the Washington Legal Foundation spotlights a growing body of provisions within federal law that, in effect, deputizes state attorneys general to enforce federal law. The paper also cites the personal injury bar's multimillion-dollar lobbying support for such provisions as its members stand to profit when attorneys general they support politically hire them to carry out resulting litigation.

The paper, written by ATRA general counsel Victor Schwartz and his Shook, Hardy & Bacon law firm colleague Christopher Appel, is entitled "The Plaintiffs' Bar's Effort to Expand State Attorney General Federal Enforcement Power."

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Source: Docuticker, 16 July 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 16, 2009 (boomark / email).